In her last year at school Lee-Anne Pene attended a New Zealand Journalists’ Training Board introductory course for Māori Pacific Island students for one week. She then attended the Wellington Polytechnic’s one year journalism course in the early 1980s and began working in the Information and Press Section of the Tourist and Publicity Department.
Biographical sources
- Pene, Lee-Anne. "JOURNALISM: Lee-Anne Pene, Tourist & Publicity." Tu Tangata 9 (1983): 21.
Non-fiction
- "JOURNALISM: Lee-Anne Pene, Tourist & Publicity." Tu Tangata 9 (Dec./Jan. 1983): 21.
- In this series of short articles in Tu Tangata’s career supplement by five Māori and Polynesian journalists, Pene discusses how she became involved with journalism, describes her work with the Information and Press Section of the Tourist and Publicity Department, and emphasises the need for greater numbers of Polynesian journalists in order to ‘fully represent’ the Polynesian population of New Zealand.